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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: ams@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: vc-fossil to non-gnu elpa?
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:15:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1kx1Ad-0005uT-BI@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvh7nvzbg6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 05 Jan 2021 09:50:01 -0500)

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  > >   > That doesn't need to happen beforehand.
  > > To postpone it is running a risk.

  > Every choice entails a risk.  This is a question of tradeoffs.

I know by experience that the risk of assuming someone will do something
and not verifying this by asking per
is substantial.  If we have hundreds of such packages in NonGNU ELPA,
I expect that each year will will have several painful surprises
that we will have to clean up.

I insist on this.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)





  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-06  5:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-01 12:56 vc-fossil to non-gnu elpa? Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-01-03 17:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-04  5:15   ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-04  6:29     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-05  6:38       ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-05 14:50         ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-06  5:15           ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2021-01-04 11:14     ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-01-05  6:34       ` Richard Stallman
     [not found]       ` <E1kwfvo-00023O-2q@fencepost.gnu.org>
     [not found]         ` <E1kwi8m-000728-6Y@fencepost.gnu.org>
     [not found]           ` <E1kxPoY-0001xs-3z@fencepost.gnu.org>
2021-09-28  7:46             ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-09-28 12:06               ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-09-28 12:11                 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-09-28 12:35                   ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-09-28 12:45               ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-28 14:21                 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-09-28 15:25                   ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-29  6:13                     ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-09-29 12:32                       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-29 15:29                         ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-09-29 17:24                           ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-30 14:22                             ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-01-04 11:14   ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-01-04 15:22     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-04 16:29       ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-01-06  5:01         ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-06  9:44           ` Alfred M. Szmidt

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